will: we begin this hour with a fox news alert, the russian army now reportedly using artillery and helicopters to open fire on advancing rebel convoys just 300 # miles south of moscow. pete: this appears to have escalated. president vladimir putin is promising to crush the armed rebellion happening inside his country as forces that once bought for russia inside ukraine vow to march on the kremlin.

rachel: wow. greg palkot is live in kyiv with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, folks. yeah, it has been an amazing night with some amazing news just across the border from where we are right now with ramifications potentially for the war here and much more. it's being called the biggest challenge to russian president vladimir putin's 23 years in power, an attempt thed coup, an armed uprising, a mutiny. the man responsible, wagner mercenary group chief. he complain about russian military leadership even saying his forces had been fired on by russians. that's when he took his 25,000 fighters plus tanks, armor, guns to nearby kyiv, population 1 million. with almost no fight put up, they took over the main military headquarters there plus other administrative buildings with the demand that the top russian

military brass come to them to discuss complaints. now, threatening to move on to moscow if if not happy if and some of his forces getting closer to the capitol though getting some stiff resistance as well, moscow itself is on high alert. vladimir putin lashing out at his one-time friend and strategic ally, remember. he's threatening decisive -- action against him. >> translator: all those who blibtly -- deliberately embarked on the path of betrayal, embarked on the path of blackmail and terrorist methods will suffer inevitable punishment, will answer both to the law and to our people. >> reporter: here in kyiv amid all of in this there was another heavy night of bombardment, 20 russian missiles were fired. most were shot down, but there were casualties and destruction and then an online message about russia's trouble from ukrainian president zelenskyy. quote: russia's weakness is

obvious. full scale weakness. and the longer russia keeps its troops and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain and problems it will have for itself later. clearly with ukraine's counteroffensive, guys, in its third week and faltering somewhat, kyiv would be happy to see chaos in the ranks of the russian military. experts here think it's possible that ukraine might try to take advantage and take action. the white house says it is watching closely as do other world capitals and maybe holding their breath. it's too early for analysts to predict exactly how this is going to turn out, but most think any resolution might not be pretty at all. back to you. will: thank you, greg. let's bring in kt mcfarland, former deputy national security can adviser, to help us understand what's going down in russia. kt, glad to have you with us. 300 miles outside of moscow or for these the wagner group mercenaries. what do you make of this entire

story in. >> nobody knows. i mean, it could be anyone without five different possibilities. it could be that vladimir putin has a false flag operation, that he's trying somehow to find a scapegoat whether it's the wagner group or his own defense department. it could be the head of the wagner group is trying to position himself like in a coup, an anti-military coup, or how he positions himself to make vladimir putin look weak. it could be any one of those things, and it could well be that it evolves. it could start as one thing and putin sees i can take an advantage here, there, but i would point out two big, important things to remember are. number one, vladimir putin came to power in 2000 because his predecessor, boris yeltsin, failed to win the chechnyan war. putin comes in and with brutal tactics against civilians, won the chechnyan war and became the

russian president. so putin's got to have that in his mind saying, gee is, i'm not going to be replaced by a peacenik, i'm going to be replaced by someone even tougher, so maybe i should get tougher. and as bad as he is, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know. if there's a civil war, nuclear weapons flying around, when who knows where this could lead. rachel: you know, back in the iraq and afghanistan war i was one of those people that just sort of believed everything that came out of my government, and now i don't believe a lot of it. and i'm always questioning things. and i asked our haas are guest on this topic, rebekah koffler, if she thought it was possible that we could be behind this attempted coup with the wagner group and she said it's definitely one of the possibilities. or nato. >> yeah, i think she's right that the united states government whether it's been actively or behind the scenes

been very involved in ukraine and russia for a long time. one of things i was struck with when i went to ukraine right after the revolution in 2014 was that russians would come up, pro-russian ukrainians would come up, they'd point to a hoe hotel room and say that's the cia's office. they were directing this entire coup against the president of ukraine, pro-russian elected president of ukraine. and so were we involved, were we not involved? we always said we weren't involved, but maybe we were. i just don't know. and at in this point all the people are going to tell you, oh, it's going to happen this way -- it's not. we don't know yet. we have to wait and see how it unfolds. pete: kt, did you see something like this coming based on the estimation of your morale of the russian forces? we've been following this now for over a year, i didn't anticipate a mercenary group would break off and attempt to take out or take on putin. is this a statement in the

morale inside his own ranks? >> e yeah, and it's a very high risk, it's a high risk game of pokerrer here because it's one thing to have an internal coup against putin either, you know, with the top leadership in the kremlin, one guy replaces another guy. this is another thing. this is actual tanks moving. and so the success or failure of it is going to be very apparent to everybody in a short period of time. you know, maybe vladimir putin uses this and somehow comes out on top. he could then go and say look at all the traitors and the scum, he's got words that he use, but bad guys and saboteurs in russia, and you need a really strong russian president to put down this internal rebellion. again, you just don't know, but it is going to play out in our face, not behind the doors of the kremlin. will: kt, i fully appreciate the number of times you said we just don't know -- [laughter] but unmore quick question before we go, what is your anticipation for what a short amount of time means? you said we'll know something in

a short amount of time. do you expect to see kinetic conflict with inside of russia? it could be -- we're already hearing reports of the helicopters and so forth, but within the day? and if so, what, i mean, how quickly does this escalate? >> it could escalate very quickly, and i do think, you know, kinetic action's starting right now, it's not going to go on for three months. there will be a resolution one way or another within several days either putin's in, putin's out, the wagner group is in, they're out, the defense minister is in or he's out. the real long run playout is in the 2024 elections. who benefits from in this? and it's not clear. whoever comes out on top a month from now is going to be in a pretty strong position for the election in 2024. their election -- will: and to be clear, yes, the are election in russia in 2024. rachel: yes. thank you, kt. pete: thank you. rachel: so interesting, what's happening. so many lies have been told to

us about the war in ukraine, about russian pipelines blowing up. there's been so much propaganda, so much money pouring into ukraine that we have no track of, there's no transparency there, now this development. then we heard a couple weeks ago that nuclear weapons were being moved to belarus. this thing gets complicated fast. i think this is why the american people are so weary of our involvement in these conflicts abroad and just want us to wind stuff down and stop -- and, by the way, we asked rebekah koffler, the earlier guest, would she recommend a peace negotiation if she was advising the biden administration, and she said 100% she would. pete: your skepticism is well earned at this point. but let's say the reports are true, it is staggering to think a column of tanks could be moving toward moscow internally and they're shooting at it. if those reports are true, i think kt's right, the war in ukraine may have dragged out to, but how this plays out, you're not looking at a matter of

weeks. this thing's going the to be settled one way or the other behind closed doors or on the battlefield. speaking of deception, let's talk about the biden crime family which we're learning a lot more about. and, thankfully, we live in a country where you can say things like that based on the evidence that's revealed and whistleblowers that are coming out, one of which came out from the irs this week in a very powerful statement about how they're slow-walking the investigation, they're burying evidence, you can't talk about the big guy. there was a certain text on whatsapp that has come out as part of this whistleblower and what the house republicans are doing that ties a direct connection between hunter, communist chinese officials and business leaders and the big guy, his dad. here's the message from hunter biden to henry zhao who's a chinese executive with ties to the communist party. this is july 30th, 2017. hunter text this: i'm sitting here with my father, the former vice president at the time, and we would like to understand why

the commitment has not been fulfilled. tell the director that i would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand. and now means tonight. and, dis, if i get a -- section, if i get a tall from -- call the from anyone other than the chairman, i will make certain between the man sitting next to me and my ability to forever hold a grudge, that you will reare great not following my direction. i'm sitting here waiting for the call with my father. the other interesting detail here is based on geolocating, there's a photograph that has hunter at his father's home on that very day that that text was sent. so do we know if his dad was sitting right there? we don't. do we know that there was proximity between the two as he's pushing for this, we do. we also know $5 million was delivered to an account tied to hunter biden just ten days after that text. rachel: we also know that the irs investigators asked to use gps because they could figure out if hunter biden was with him

in that room. and the doj, the fbi, whoever, said, no, you're not allowed to continue investigating in that line of questioning. and, in fact, they were told -- the people, the fbi and also those at the irs who were investigating were told you cannot is ask about the big guy. so there was this real concerted effort to make sure that nothing ever bled from hunter over to joe biden. they didn't want to know, as you so famously said, you can connect tease lies. that -- these lies. that message, $5 million a few days later into an account with a crayon. it's the best way of describing how obvious what's happening is. will: they clearly shop to stopped -- stopped the investigation. they clearly stopped any potential charges. the whistleblower behind much of this, gary shackley. we had his attorney earlier on in the show. here's what he had to say. >> this case was handled differently than any he'd seen

in his 4- year career. -- 14-year career. he felt congress needed the know and understand how this case was developed and, obviously, congress made the decision in voting to release the information that the american public deserved to see this. a lot of this information, i think,s has rightly surprised the american public. this is one of many steps where the investigators were completely blocked from doing anything that would extend beyond hunter biden. they were told there's e-mails out there, there have been some time, about 10 held by h for the big bay. all the investigators flew who the big guy was, and they were blocked from subpoenas, search warrants that would have been at biden's delaware residence. you know, anything that went beyond hunter himself they were blocked from. will: hunter's lawyers have already begun to throw their own client under the bus. that had to happen. hunter's going to have to be sold up the river because, if not, he could potentially bring down joe biden. hunter's own attorneys are already saying, essentially, my client is a crackhead, he's on

drugses and what he says cannot be trusted. there's another whistleblower whose identity is anonymous still, and he's sharing information as well. this is what the second whittle blower had to say: there were a lot of times where they would discuss the election or politics and i had to say on multiple occasions i felt it was inappropriate. james biden, we would call him the uncle, that's how we referred to him, as the uncle. i continued to the ask we go and interview them and understand what these payments were for, and those were always met with a no. pete: so, no, you can't go interview people specifically involved in what you think is criminal activity. rachel: yeah. pete: no. nobody -- basically, they decided the dead end stops at hunter. we're going to find the charges that we can easily eventually be pled to, as we know, with no jail time. and here's why this is important, we don't know that other whistleblower, you're right, but shackley's an incredible guy.

a high level, respected irs agent who went through the entire process the way that you should, has been apolitical, simply saying we've never done it this way before. and we could be wrong because we've said this before, but this feels like the type of thing that could break through. will: it does feel like it could break through, but with i said that to you both off camera, and your rebuttal to me was how does it break through. we know it is highly unlikely it breaks through at the doj and results in any serious criminal investigation that would include joe or possibly even jim biden on these serious charges. then you ask yourself, well, what is the mechanism for accountability? is it impeachment? and you said how many democrats are going to switch over and go, oh, i see, this is really bad. the answer only is yes if they joe biden can't win a presidential election and it's time to turn the page. rachel: this is why people are losing faith in our country, and this is the real damage that's

being done. justice is supposed to be blind. they were told there are shell companies where jim biden, the uncle, got money, and they're not allowed to interview him. the grandkids got money. they weren't allowed to interview them. they weren't allowed to pursue anything that said the big guy. you know, this is a sham, and meanwhile we have a former president facing life in prison because of a document -- pete: documents, yes. [laughter] thank you for bringing that up. rachel: -- and moving boxes that he's perfectly entitled to have because he actually was the president. this thing stinks to high heaven. it interfered with an election, it enriched a political maya family as you can -- mafia family as you can see from those e-mail, the self-entitled way they're acting, and also it's tearing our country apart. will: and it's influencing american foreign policy as we speak -- pete: as we speak. rachel: as we speak! will: influencing national security as we speak. pete: and so if a phone call to a ukrainian president is the

predicate for an impeachment of donald trump, how does this not beat the bar -- meet the bar for the impeachment of a sitting president for house republicans? riddle me that question. that's going to become increasingly -- they tried to shelf that over, i think it was marjorie taylor greene a had a resolution, it's going to become increasingly difficult for kevin mccarthy and house republicans to justify not -- if this is all value dated and as it gets pushed into, bring these people into hearings to have them testify under oath, increasingly difficult if it is confirmed to not take that next step. rachel: there are mountains and mountains of evidence because hunter biden was a narcissist, exhibitionist and is a self-entitled princeling. so the evidence is plenty -- pete: it's almost too much. rachel: almost too much. we can't unsee -- can i just add one more thing? and he used his own money and used it as a deductible and actually deducted it off of his taxes for a sex club.

this thing could not get any worse -- pete: i told you, you couldn't say one more thing, and you did it -- rachel: i'm sorry. i'm obsessed with hunter. [laughter] pete: no, it's true. on his taxes. rachel: that he got kickeded out of because he was the worst sex club member. [laughter] you can't make this stuff up. all right, turning now to your headlines. today marks two years since the deadly surfside condo collapse in miami that killed 98 people. the building crashed due to severe strength deficiency, failing to comply with building codes according to federal investigators. today the ruins of the collapsed condo remains as officials determine how to move forward with the site. the rnc now requiring gop presidential candidates to promise to back the 2024 the presidential nominee ahead of their first debate. candidate vivek ramaswamy joined us earlier. we asked him if he would make the pledge. >> if the other candidates in this race make that pledge, i

will stand by and being willing to because that's a condition for open debate in our own party. will: if not everyone vows to make that pledge, then you will not either. it's an all all-or-nothing proposition for you? >> it is, and that's only fair. i think we have to, as a movement, say we're going to have open debate on that debate stage with a common commitment. rachel: i wonder if we're going to have this debate. the first republican primary debate is scheduled for august 23rd on fox news. top-ranked golfer scottie scheffler accidentally whacking himself in the face yesterday during an outing at the tpc river highlands. the video of scheffler's club smacking him in the face going viral with over million like on twitter in less than 24 hours. despite the slip-up, he put together a solid performance securing a spot in the travelers championship this weekend. and those are your headlines. will: all right. coming up, a tough crowd for one 2024 hopeful.

>> i'm running because he's let us down. and i -- [inaudible conversations] you can boo with all you want. [laughter] will: chris christie booed for criticizing trump at a gop event, so what's his end game in the race? president yeah, we don't know. kellyanne conway joins us to discuss coming up. ♪slee ♪ almost is just another word for not as good as mine. the queen sleep number 360 c2 smart bed is now only $899. plus, 48-month financing on all smart beds. shop now only at sleep number

♪ get around, i get around ♪ will: osage beach, missouri. the ozarks. pete: so you knew that osage beach was the ozarks? will: i felt 75% about it. [laughter] pete: so you broadcast it over national television as a fact. will: yep. [laughter] am i wrong? pete: i hope you're right. hopefully, the producers can look it up for us. will: i just ran out 75% confident information but only on the least important topics. [laughter] pete: but, i mean, ozarks is a beautiful -- will: see graphic quiz i'm playing with the audience. i think i'm right. pete: i'm sure he is. will: the great people of the show me state will show me if i'm right, and i'm being told as we peek, no big surprise,

correct. [laughter] pete: i'm not surprised. good morning, everybody. it was friday night, so that means we needed to get some information released that they probably didn't want us to hear about, and i think it was about 7:15, 7:30 on a friday night was the declassified covid origins report that congress had mandated the biden administration ad that to release. where did this virus come from -- we all know where it came from, but what is the government saying about it? here's a portion of the report that was, well, it was underwhelming. variations of ic, meaning intelligence community, analytic views on the origins of the covid pan domic largely stem -- pandemic largely stem from differences in intelligence and scientific gaps. all agencies continue to assess that both a natural and laboratory-associated origin remain plausible hypotheses to explain the first human infection, so that's gobbledygook speak for different agencies assessed different things, so we're basically

punting and not saying when, ultimately, i think it was the department of energy and the fbi, a few others have said we believe it came from a lab in wuhan, the virus, from the virology lab in wuhan. rachel: right. we had representative brad wenstrup on, the chairman of the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic, and he broke down what some of those gobble dwi cook classified documents said. >> had the to can declassify all the intelligence that they would have pertaining to the wuhan institute of virology and origins of covid. and now they present this and say there's a classified annex. the whole idea was to declassify. china has the capability, as do we, the can create a chimera, to create a gain of function type of virus. we've also discovered things that the government accountability office has revealed, that u.s. dollars were going to china for coronavirus research. but what the report did show is

that there were biosafety deficiencies in china with training and with policies. but also things that we have look at is there were problems within the facilities themselves. w. will: these declassified documents were held a week longer than they were scheduled to be released, and they're not as revealing as one would anticipate. it defies, as you mentioned earlier, pete, common sense, understanding of the facts and and everything to consider any other possibility at this point. beyond the fact this thing came from the wuhan institute of virology or at least was manmade. and which should launch us into the real conversation about what we do about that both in terms of investing in gain of function research but also accountability for china. rachel: of course accountability for china. 7 million people died worldwide. they lied about, you know, the leak, they disappeared scientists who were trying to alert the world. and then we had our own head of our public health, fauci,

basically sending e-mails to other people trying to get them to -- you know, people who were saying, other scientists who were saying, obviously, this is from a leak and this is manmade. ask then e-mails are exchanged and it's liker oh, no, no, no, no, let's get on the same page, it's from nature. pete: we learned even more this week. we talked about the cover-up in china, but three of the scientists that first got infected were doing research funded by our country. rachel: that's right. pete: here we go again. will: fall of 2019. rachel: and the reason it matters is we've already given more money to the people when who funded the wuhan lab, so it never stops. will: coming up, tornadoes ripping true the mains as a power of tropical storms continue to strengthen in the atlantic, and rick reichmuth is tracking it all. and the pain in the back of your eye is forcing bad words from your mouth, it's not too late for another treatment option.

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will: and we're back with some head helines. today the marks one year since gianno caldwell's younger brother was shot and killed on the south side of chicago. he was on earlier to tell us how his family is doing today to. >> they've all mostly moved out, ask they don't want to to go back to chicago because they're concerned for their safety. i and my family need justice. there are so many families within the city of chicago who are lacking the justice they deserve from the law enforcement there, ask they're not getting it. will: and with no arrests or answers, gianno says the city has failed his family. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy says he would consider expunging former president trump's impeachments from the record. he argues one was argued on no true facts and the other no due process. a resolution was introduced by republicans this week. to the mlb world tour, the

cubs and cardinals are getting ready to be in a two-game series across the pond. the teams set to hit the field this london in a few hours. pregame coverage starts at noon on fox, and yankees' legend derek jeter set the make his debut as a fox studio analyst. and if those are your headlines. rachel, over to you. rachel: thank you, will. for much of the past three years, the west has been facing a severe drought leaving many precious water resources reaching alarming low levels. now fast forward toed today, look at in this. after a record year of rainfall and snow pack in the nevada mountains, we are now at 100% capacity, even higher than where the levels with supposed to be. let's bring in california state senator shannon grove to talk about this. representative grove, this is a very -- i mean, it's just incredible. look at this. nothing and then here we are

now. so many of these naturally occurring things that in mother nature are blamed on manmade climate change. what do you make of in this, and how is this new situation in california being received by the population there? >> oh, i think, rachel, if you go back in history, you'll see that water and rain comes, rainfall comes at a san level, and then we have drought years, and then it cycles again. so we are at capacity, and what's really sad is that a lot of our reservoirs are at 100% capacity, the orville dam is, you know, the, they're releasing water out of the site. and so what's really difficult is, is that, you know, in 2015 14 we passed a boll ott measure with 67 -- ballot measure to build new water storage, and we haven't built one single new water storage project. rachel: why has that not happened? it seems like such an obvious thing to do in a state that

struggles with water. >> so the republicans, you know, we're in a superminority position, but we've introduced several pieces of legislation that would allow us to build water storage and use the over $2 billion that the voters have approved that is just is sitting there. but every time we introduce a piece of legislation, you know, to either, you know, raise the dam the, just any of those project, they just kill those bills. rachel: yeah. you wonder if they actually like the crisis that's created from the drought. that that gives them more opportunity to introduce their climate change agenda. >> exactly. rachel: let's move to another topic because this is something that's very dear to your heart, my heart, anybody who wares -- cares about women and children, and that is human trafficking. you've introduced a bill to make charge, make it a felony to be involved in this. explain more. >> so in the state of california, human trafficking, the trafficking of a minor child or anyone, is not considered a

serious felony. rachel: unbelievable. >> pardon me? rachel: it's unbelievable. [laughter] >> it is unbelievable. so we, we introduced a bill, and the first part of our bill encompassed everybody who was trafficked regardless of age, race, gender, anything including labor traffic because california's a hotbed for human trafficking. it's a multibillion dollar industry. and so they forced us to take amendments, so now the bill is moving through the building, but with it only covers 0-17. and what's really sad is it doesn't cover anybody above 18, but what is even worse is right now without this bill being passed, you can traffic of a minor in the state of california, and it's the not considered a serious felony. rachel: wow. that's incredible. i appreciate all the work you're doing on that. i hope you can expand that age limit. we know that human trafficking, child sex trafficking and child labor trafficking is on the rise because of our open border, so we really need this kind of

legislation. representative grove with, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you, rachel. rachel: you got it. that lady's a fighter. all right, coming up, a tough crowd for 2024 hopeful chris christie after he slammed formerralling lie donald trump. >> i'm running because he's let us down, and i -- >> [background sounds] >> you can boo all you want. rachel: so huh will other contenders deal with the current front-runner? we discuss with kellyanne conway. and don't forget to catch" one nation" tonight with brian kilmeade. he's got dr. drew pinsky, he's got dr. drew pinsky, senator lindsey graham and rob schneider. and more. ♪ hociouuse ♪ that's it. miracle-gro. all you need to know to grow.

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♪ will: back with a fox weather alert. at least 8 people are hurt after tornadoes touch down in wyoming, one little the largest coal mine in the u.s. according to officials. the area also pummeled by heavy rain and winds up to the 70 miles per hour. let's go to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth. rick: we've had so much going on across parts of the high plains over the last few weeks, it's helped the drought, but now we're getting too much moisture. take a look at the weather map, we saw severe weather across wyoming, overnight across parts of nebraska, today we'll see more severe weather across minnesota and and iowa. the northeast, it is the going to be a gloomy weekend across

much of the northeast, and a lot of this coming week we have some drought that's been developing rapidly, so this is good news. we're going to to yet some good poise chuture but, unfortunately, it's going to fall too quickly. down across the south, two weeks straight of record-breaking temperatures and probably another 10-12 days ahead at least of this. high temperatures are going to continue here, will. not good news. it's going to be a developing story as we move forward. and, by the way, we're also watching the tropics, two storms that are not going to to impact land but a busy, early start to hurricane season. will, back to you inside. will: thank you, rick. pete: former new jersey governor chris christie getting the cold shoulder at this year's faith and freedom coalition are conference after he said this about former president trump: >> why am i running for president of the united states? because he's let us down. he has let us down because he's unwilling. he's unwilling to take responsibility for any of the mistakes that were made. and -- any of the faults that he has.

and any of the things that he's done. and that is not leadership, everybody. that is a failure of leadership. [background sounds] if and i -- you can boo all you want. will: former counselor to president trump and fox news contributor kellyanne conway joins us now. good morning, glad to have you on the show. >> good morning. will: glad to have you answer this question we debated earlier in the program. chris christie clearly thinks his path to something is to be the anti-trump, the take him on, to combat him. but what's the point in doing it in that environment where he knows the crowd is going to be the largely comprised of supporters of president trump? if why give that -- why give that message in that environment? >> yes. chris christie is a very smart guy and was governor of a blue state for two terms and a very dear friend of donald trump's for decades. i think you've got to read the room. there's a difference between being at a cnn town hall and having the adoration and adulation of the main stream

media who want chris christie to be on the debate stage in august to take on donald trump live and in person and showing up at faith and freedom. when i watched governor christie talk about he, he's let us down, he won't course correct for his mistakes, he never admits fault, i was hoping he was talking about joe biden and and not donald trump because, eye on the prize, everyone. you're running against joe biden. he occupies the office of president, and he's a terrible president. he doesn't deserve a second term. we literally and figuratively cannot afford four more years of joe biden, and i believe, friends, that the republican candidates who can take on biden hammer and tongue are going to do very well among the republican primary electorate. no kidding, listen, i listened to chris christie when he was running ifing for for governor. we were speaking at the same breakfast, gosh, 15, 16 years -- 14 years ago. i was pregnant with my last one, i remember s and he gave an impassioned explanation as to how he went from being pro-choice to pro-life, i think

messages like that in a forum like yesterday are much better. rachel: yeah. that would have been really nice to hear. we've been sitting here pondering all morning what is his end game here. i remember, you know, kellyanne, i used to be -- i've been a co-host on "the view" over a dozen times, and when i would be in the green room, i would remind myself the people at the table and in the audience are not my audience. i think maybe he's auditioning for something else like maybe his audience is a contract at, you know, another network that wants a republican who's willing to take on and criticize donald do trump. is that what it is? -- donald trump. is that what it is? i don't know. what else could it be? >> well, chris christie just gave up a network contract. he's been an abc analyst for many years, gave that up to run for president. i think that there are the 30, 35 people in this country currently or who are running for president in some way, shape or form and then there's the other 335 million of us. so it's a very -- it's a group

that believes they are best for the job. i'll say this, here's the impossibility for every single candidate out there: if you, on the one hand, if you're going to run against donald trump, you have to attack donald trump. on the other hand, you have to attract the trump voters. and it literally is impossibly mathematically, let alone chemistry wise, another subject, to do that. i think governor desantis has found that brick wall pretty early on because he should have done what i think some of these other candidates will do which is don't position yourself as the alternative to trump, position yourself as the alternative to joe biden. that's the advice i would give -- some of them will take the it for free. highly paid consultants still sound asleep will take that advice. folks, it's harder e than it looks to dislodge a sitting president and deny him a second term, even somebody who mumbles, stumbles and bumbles like joe biden. the democrats have no interest in quality candidates.

they're not interested in why we should vote or which issues are for whom, they're interested on where to vote, how to vote and when to vote. this is about process and power. rachel: 100%. pete: nobody better to break it down. there's an immovable object in this field -- >> and he's speaking to that group tonight. he's their key note speaker tonight, and he'll do very well. will: thank you, kellyanne, as always. rachel: he gave up his, he gave up the contract, but he could be trying to get another one later on. that's my point. [laughter] will: tomorrow on "fox & friends" if weekend, shannon bream, the daryl johnson and presidential hopeful larry elder. rachel: but first on this show from the brattle -- battlefield to the golf course, the 2023 armed forces cup will air on fox sports 1. a preview next. ♪ ♪

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♪ pete: as a salute to more than 18,000 members of the veteran golfers' association, fox sports, fox sports is -- 1, will televise the 2023 armed forces golf tournament today at noon. here to tell us more about the competition are cofounders of

the veteran golfers' association josh pay and joe kaley. gentlemen, both, thank you for what your doing for vets today. thank you for your service in the army as well. for our viewers who are not familiar with the veteran golfers' association, tell us who you are and about this tournamentment happening today. >> well, pete, first of all, thank you, thank you for joining us. that's a nice red jacket -- pete: yeah, thank you guys. i love it. >> well, the veteran golfers' association is a competitive golf league for veterans and their family members all across the country. we have over 18,000 members, and, you know, if you're a veteran or the family member of a veteran, you can join our organization and play competitive golf all the around -- all around the country. we're joining you live from champions' retreat, homesite of the augusta national women's amateur competition and now we're proud that it's also the host site of the armed forces cup on fox sports 1.

pete: armed forces cup. and from what i understand, joe, this is a team -- you've got an army team, air force, marine corps, navy, coast guard, so they're competing as teams for the armed forces cup. >> that's correct. all five branches of the military put together a 10-man squad, and they play a team match style event for bragging rights and, you know, it's amazing to see our vga members so excited about this format. and then also for us, it's also more exciting to see the army has won it two years in a row back to back. [laughter] pete: the army has won it two two years, i like that. the team aspect keeps it in the military rell. we all served with a team, so you've got great individual golfers, but you can tune this today to pull for an armed service. again, it's at 12 noon, 12 eastern today, the 2023 armed forces cup on fs1.

josh and joe, thank you again for your service. thanks for this great jacket and this hat. the swag you sent us. [laughter] look at that. >> hey, looking good, pete. peter: thank you guys very much for what you're doing for vets. another chapter of service. >> you're eligible to be a vga member as well, pete. pete: oh, man. i don't know if my golf game is eligible, but based on my service background, i'll check it out. guys, thanks so much, appreciate it. >> thanks for having us. pete: you got it. here's another one. this is a big one. we've been waiting to announce this for a while. save the date. fox nation will be hosting our fifth annual patriot awards on november 16th, and we got a have been you change, at the grand ole opry in nashville. be the first to know about a tickets going on sale this summer, go to foxnation.com/patriotawards. you can also nominate someone to receive an award there. check it out. ♪ how can i resist? ♪ ain't looking for nothing --

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